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WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.


Yeah I've done this. It's fine. Those mats are, no exaggeration, a foot thick and you're safe to land on them from a good 4-5m up. You could still hurt yourself if you land funny but how that guy landed was fine. Mostly just avoid landing on your head/neck or like, screwing up your wrist by landing at a funny angle.

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Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

`Nemesis posted:

If they had an airframe parachute they could of landed vertically instead

Better a thousand dead dentists than a single safe landing.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/we4jqtS.mp4

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

Castlevania live action movie looking good.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Nocheez posted:

Castlevania live action movie looking good.

I've destroyed you once Alacard, I will destroy you again.

Sir, this is a nursing home, take your pills and stop whipping me with that diaper.

spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all

Sagebrush posted:

Those numbers usually assume clean, dry pavement in best-case weather conditions. Can it stop in 3900' on dirt?

Yes, this is Everts, an air carrier that operates the last of the DC-6's, specifically to get into runways around villages like these. Most of these villages have cut their runways specifically to cater to DC-3's, -4's, and -6's.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

I want sound on this.

Cable Guy
Jul 18, 2005

I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...




Slippery Tilde

Platystemon posted:

I want sound on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBqZZ177Q9I

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


My favorite edit of that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-fBgzwikA

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

HardDiskD posted:

what if the dirt was on a treadmill

Is the treadmill part of the plane?

B-36 tracked gear!

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

taqueso posted:

Is the treadmill part of the plane?

B-36 tracked gear!


OSHA IV: That seems like a bad idea

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Ok, idea time: Airplane wheels, but they're giant pizza cutters. Also the airstrip is a giant pizza.

BrassRoots
Jan 9, 2012

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere - John Coltrane
What if the treads are pineapples instead of cutters and the pizza is really a tortilla?

BMan
Oct 31, 2015

KNIIIIIIFE
EEEEEYYYYE
ATTAAAACK



Now watch a real master do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAXcFq3OgnM

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

If people are walking away from it it's a good landing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2tfRyW4uQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh7APjiFddw

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

A Portrait of the Balrog as a Young Man

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



HardDiskD posted:

what if the dirt was on a treadmill

then the treadmill becomes a conveyor and will eat you

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/qFIoqY6.mp4
Forbidden waterslide

Iron Chef Ramen
Sep 15, 2007

HA HA! YOU HAVE CHOSEN POORLY!
That landing though, gently caress

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/cyl5Uza.mp4

PainterofCrap
Oct 17, 2002

hey bebe



Christ, does that ever personify the thread title

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



i like how the camera autoexposure turns it to instant night as soon as the arcs start

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

“Worker one showed poor technique.

“When evacuating from a downed power line, keep feet together and hop or shuffle directly away from the point of contact.”


ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jet Jaguar
Feb 12, 2006

Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.



Iron Chef Ramen posted:

That landing though, gently caress

Shoes remained on after it, but I'm not sure how. Maybe his crushed coccyx kept the signal from going to his feet.

DRINK ME
Jul 31, 2006
i cant fix avs like this because idk the bbcode - HTML IS BS MAN

We’re sending you back Marty.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Ooh Action Park added a new attraction!



Is there something on the ground that caught on fire or is that the insulation bursting into flames?

Shai-Hulud
Jul 10, 2008

But it feels so right!
Lipstick Apathy

Platystemon posted:

“Worker one showed poor technique.

“When evacuating from a downed power line, keep feet together and hop or shuffle directly away from the point of contact.”




Just out of curiosity. When you are stuck in an electrified vehicle, is it safe to touch the metal parts of the vehicle as long as you're not touching the ground at the same time? Should be, right?

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー
There's nothing "safe" about that situation. Its entirely possible you touch two different metal parts that are slightly insulated from each other and run a tiny bit of current through your heart.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Shai-Hulud posted:

Just out of curiosity. When you are stuck in an electrified vehicle, is it safe to touch the metal parts of the vehicle as long as you're not touching the ground at the same time? Should be, right?

It’s not absolutely safe.

An ideal conductor has the same voltage at all points on it, but no real object is an ideal conductor.

Every real conductor under current acts in some small way like a resistor and has a gradient across it.

How steep and how dangerous this gradient is depends on how conductive the object is and how much current it carries.

The bed of a dump truck is a big hunk of metal and you might be able to do the splits in while it was energised without feeling anything. Those big tyres help, too, as would dry ground underneath.

If instead you were in the bed of a rusty Tacoma, parked on wet ground.



Here the “all metal at same potential” approximation is less good. The wet ground will allow more current, and the rusty body will drop more volts across it.

Imagine if you were on the roof when a wire landed on the hood. Don’t try to escape by sliding down the bed. Your body would be near line voltage while your feet touched the grounded bed. The existing metallic connexion between cab and bed is… not great.

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Feb 10, 2020

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008




Truckfuckler needs to treat his toys nicer :(

Shai-Hulud
Jul 10, 2008

But it feels so right!
Lipstick Apathy
Yeah of course its not a safe situation in general and i wasn't thinking about doing the splits across a truck. I was more wondering about touching part of the frame while inside the car and moving around. So in general it would be "safe" even though you should try not to touch at two points at the same time? Keep contact to a minimum?
You know what, i'll just try to not end up in that situation at all!

drgitlin
Jul 25, 2003
luv 2 get custom titles from a forum that goes into revolt when its told to stop using a bad word.
Edit - never mind, who cares.

drgitlin fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Feb 10, 2020

Pretty Cool Name
Jan 8, 2010

wat


If I ever want to turn my pelvis into dust I guess I know where to go.

stump collector
May 28, 2007
What's the context behind the pyramid waterslide? Did the verrcuckt designer leave the country after his trial?

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
It looks like a gutter or maybe a sluice that just happens to be butt sized.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Massive storms put out nearly a third of the fires in NSW.

Now everything's just flooded.

This is so stupid.

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

Make sure to know your bush flood plan!

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Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

zedprime posted:

It looks like a gutter or maybe a sluice that just happens to be butt sized.

It's next to a set of stairs. Obviously it's a handicapped ramp.

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